In this age of an open Internet, it is easy to forget that every American information industry, beginning with the telephone, has eventually been taken captive by some ruthless monopoly or cartel. With all our media now traveling a single network, an unprecedented potential is building for centralized control over ...
Speaker: Vilayanur S. Ramachandran, Director of the Center for Brain and Cognition, UC San Diego
Where: StanfordCost: Free
'From Afar' in EthiopiaOn May 9, 2011, the SLAC Colloquium committee is pleased to present a special talk by Prof. of Anthropology at U.C. Berkeley, Dr. Tim White, titled "From Afar," in which he will detail his team's decades of work in Ethiopia, unraveling the story of human evolution. Darwin and Huxley ...
Speaker: Clas Jacobson, United Technologies Corporation, Building Control SystemsNVIDIA Auditorium
Where: StanfordCost: Free
May LASER Event6:30pm-6:45pm: Socializing/networking.6:45-7:10pm: Elizabeth Jameson (visual artist) on "Re-Imaging the MRI"An artist's use of medical technology to change the narrative of chronic illness.7:10-7:35pm: Kal Spelletich (Seemen) on "Machines Fires Golems Wines Aeronautics Telepresences"Machines and robots that challenge phenomenologicaly those who activate and interact with them by challenging their perceptions about the ...
Join us as we welcome Dr. Laurie Marker, renowned Cheetah, for an inspiring evening benefiting the Cheetah Conservation Fund in Namibia. The oldest and most unique of all the big cats in Africa, the cheetah is the fastest land mammal reaching speeds of up to 70 mph. But the cheetah ...
Where: OaklandCost: $12-20 General, $10-20 Members
Book Club: The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of CancerIn 2010, about six hundred thousand Americans, and more than 7 million humans around the world, will die of cancer." With this sobering statistic, physician and researcher Siddhartha Mukherjee begins his comprehensive and eloquent "biography" of one of the most virulent diseases of our time. An exhaustive account of cancer's ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
Free 3-Session Climate Action WorkshopPut the gloom and doom of climate change aside for a moment. Instead, imagine living in a resilient community where your bills are smaller, your air is clearer, and your personal and national security are protected. That world is possible, and the Ecology Center invites you to co-create it. Minimize ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
JGI Science @ the Lesher: 'The Deal with Carbon'The next installment in the JGI Science @ the Lesher series is "The Deal with Carbon: How Earth's Mighty Microbes Respond." This free panel discussion is open to the general public and will take place at the Lesher Center in downtown Walnut Creek on Monday, May 9, 2011 from 7:00pm ...
Where: Walnut CreekCost: FREE
Lucy's Legacy: The Quest for Human Origins Professor Donald Johanson, founding director of The Institute of Human Origins (IHO) at Arizona State University, discovered the 3.2 million year old hominid skeleton popularly known as "Lucy" (Australopithecus afarensis) in Ethopia in 1974. She has become an icon in this field of study and remains an important touchstone for ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $12 General, $10 Seniors, Free Members
